Awooto Eeday Mosque
{{Short description|Mosque in Mogadishu, Somalia}}
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The Awooto Eeday Mosque is a small mosque located in one of the old historical alleyways of Hamar Weyne in Mogadishu.{{Cite book|last=Adam|first=Anita|title=Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu|pages=204–205}}
Overview
The mosque is said to have been built with the money of a pious woman who was known as Awooto Eeday (Awooto which means grandmother in the local dialect). Above the mihrab of this mosque there's a plate with inscriptions which bears the date of 1223 AH, which corresponds to 1845 on the Gregorian calendar, according to Prof. Sharif Abdalla.{{Cite book|last=La Lomia|first=Maria|title=Antiche Moschee di Mogadiscio|year=1982|pages=59–60}} However, according Maria Roasrio La Lomia, the mosque could be a lot older and that date could reflect the renovation of an older mosque. Awooto Eeday ("Grandmother Eeday‟) mosque is the neighbourhood mosque for the Shanshiyo. It was here that Sheikh Abba spent much of his day in the last quarter century, for prayer, teaching his students, and talking with people. According to his son 'Abdirahman, the mosque was built by an old woman of the Reer Sheikh Muuminow, one of the oldest Banaadiri clan and is on the site of yet an older mosque.{{Cite journal|last=Adam|first=Anita|title=Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu|journal=School of Oriental & African Studies PhD|pages=148}}
See also
References
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